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Real Dolls: Love in the Age of Silicone Meghan Laslocky -- 10/17/2005  [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ][ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ][ 14 ][ 15 ]While he does do custom work on occasion for customers who are willing to pay the price or have legitimate needs, McMullen does sometimes put his foot down. No lactating dolls, urinating dolls, amputees, seven-foot tall dolls, Britney Spears replicas, or dolls with armpit hair or heartbeats. And no dogs either, as was the request of one prospective customer who called him. “He asked me if I could make him a silicone dog, because he was a breeder, and he didn’t want to hurt his dogs anymore, he said. He talked like right out of the movie Deliverance.” McMullen’s surfer-dude lilt plummets into a pungent drawl, “’Aw, I don’t want to hurt ma dawgs, I like ma dawgs…kin you make me one so ah kin still use it fur the sex?’ And when I realized that he was legitimate, I was shocked. And I just politely said no, I’m sorry, gotta go, click.” Another prospective customer sent nude pictures of his 60–year-old mother, wanting a custom built replication. A surgical pathologist wanted a vagina duplicated from a specimen he had in a jar. “Pretty scary stuff,” McMullen summarizes. Many special requests are handled diplomatically in the FAQ’s on Real Doll site. For example: Question: I'm a crossdresser interested in a full body silicone female skin. Can I buy a REALDOLL skin or can you tell me where I can get a silicone female body suit? We don't offer silicone body suits and REALDOLL does not have a separate skin. REALDOLL is a solid silicone doll. To our knowledge, no company offers a silicone female body suit. A silicone suit would require a sophisticated cooling system (silicone retains heat and does not breathe), and be custom-fitted to your body from a life-cast. We don't offer such services and we don't know anyone who does. As for the frequent requests for child dolls, those are flatly rejected. “I don’t get into debates, scolding them, I just say I can’t go there, sorry,” McMullen says. Occasionally, customers with possibly pedophilic interests try to get the better of him, as with one who specifically requested a very young-looking doll, with a Body 4 and a custom-sculpted face. When McMullen molded the custom face and put it with the Body 4, it simply looked too young to him -- a “borderline” fifteen or sixteen -- so he threw the mold out and started over to sculpt a face that was more mature-looking. The customer, who paid $12,000 for the custom job, demanded the first face, and McMullen said no. “I told him you can either have your money back or you can take what I’ve done. He ended up taking it.” “The downside is that I don’t have any control over what people do with their dolls after they leave here. So, we can take say a Kaori doll [a very young looking F13/B4] and she looks fine to me. The customer gets her, he gets a different wig with pig tails, and maybe he takes all of the lip color off and puts on a more natural color, and takes some of the makeup off the eyes, and does all this stuff himself, and I can’t control that. And there are lots of dolls out there that people have modified or changed, sometimes ending up with just an ugly doll, other times ending up in a doll that looks younger than when she left here.” end of page 16 [ 16 ] read more ... [ 17 ][ 18 ][ 19 ][ 20 ][ 21 ][ 22 ][ 23 ] |
